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What a great name for an athlete. Especially for a football player. Jack Youngblood is the best professional athlete to ever wear the jersey number 85. A 2001 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, Youngblood played his entire NFL career, spanning the years of 1971 through 1984, wearing a Los Angeles Rams jersey.

Following the 1979 NFL season, the Los Angeles Rams advanced to the NFC title game. In a first-round playoff game, prior to that NFC title game, Youngblood fractured his leg (fibula.) Youngblood was fitted with a brace and subsequently played with the broken leg in both the NFC title game and Super Bowl XIV that year.

Some of Jack Youngblood's accomplishments:

All-Pro five times

Seven-time Pro Bowler

Played in 201 consecutive games

1975 NFL Defensive Lineman of the Year

NFL Hall of Famer (Class of 2001)

Rams Ring of Fame member

According to profootballweekly.com, "Roger Staubach said Youngblood was the toughest defensive lineman that he ever faced."